Defining the genre of creative nonfiction as where writing and journalistic reporting merge, this guide shows that aspiring journalists, essayists, and biographers do not need to stifle their creativity to succeed in the craft of writing. The guide teaches young writers how to use creative nonfiction to its full effect, writing the truth in a way…

This paper describes an episode in the history of journalism that reveals a continuing tension in news reporting. Dating from the invention of the telegraph in the late nineteenth century, news reports have been increasingly patterned after either a "scientific" or a "literary" model. The scientific report is based on irreducible facts, high-speed…

The net effect of the early experiences of writing "compositions" which involved either describing the circumstances of a student's life or recounting the kinds of events encapsulated in that proverbially hack title, "What I Did on My Summer Vacation," has been a tendency for older teachers to devalue nonfiction as an object of…

Discusses the genre of writing labeled "New Journalism" for useful writing styles, devices, techniques, and formats that could be applied to discover and effectively convey what happens in schools. (Author/MLF)

A comparison is made between the tools of observation and research used by journalists to study society and the media, and the qualitative and clinical research tools used in the social and psychological sciences. The first part of the paper, a journalistic approach to sociology, traces the notion of the sociologist as a super-reporter using…

This paper discusses the concept of popular culture, relating it to new journalism as a phenomenon which reflects the popular images of society. Style is the essential element of popular culture so that the kind of writing presently known as new journalism is the ultimate example of the philosophy that style is supreme. But the style of the best…

The debate between objective and new journalism centers upon the question of which approach factually depicts reality. Both genres, however, are part of one fact/fiction matrix in which all narrative forms since John Locke have been based upon factuality. The difference between the genres is that new journalism relies upon the sensory data of…

This paper discusses the evolution of development journalism into development communication, concentrating in the process on what has happened to government-media relationships and traditional freedom of the press notions as Third World presses are subjected to guidance policies and rampant authoritarianism. It looks at the use of mass media in…

The term "New Journalism" refers to a different style of journalistic writing which is based on a renewed commitment to principles of honesty and thoroughness and which encourages writers to exercise the freedom of a new subjective, creative, and candid style of reportage and commentary. The significance of New Journalism as a mode of…

Reading, learning, and practicing various literary writing styles combines creative writing, news writing, and new journalism techniques in an advanced writing course at St. Bonaventure University. (RL)

Taking off from the perception that the current critical climate blurs most meaningful distinctions between fiction and nonfiction, this book examines what happens when writers and readers encounter texts presented as nonfiction--texts that make some truth claim on outside experience, texts whose characters and events have at least some tangible…

This book, designed primarily as a college text, but also useful for self-study, as a library reference, and as a reference for cub reporters, newscasters, and associate editors, offers guidance on format and structure for the feature writer. Topics discussed include news features, brites, color stories, side bars, and think pieces, as well as…

Described is a project to interest elementary school students in conducting interviews with older people in order to learn more about cultural history and family history. Included is a sample list of interview questions. (KC)

More than 100 decontextualized, formalistic paradigms of the narrative process are in existence, but little work has been done to apply the insights narrative theory yields to news and journalistic form. Given the journalistic assumption that facts can be presented neutrally, news professionals tend to maintain that narratives do not exist outside…